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So the first scale that we are going to look at today is the D flat Pentatonic scale or
5 note scale. It is a simple scale that just takes couple of the D flat major scale and
isolates them. So we are going to take a look at the actual scale right now. Here is our
treble cleft, D flat. We have a lot of flats D flat, E flat, A flat, G flat and F flat.
So we start right here on the D flat. So we have 1, 2, 3, skip 4 and we have 5 and 6.
This is what we call the root pentatonic. It starts on the root. 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 and
we have our 5th pentatonic which starts on the 5th so we have 5, 6, 7 and you skip the
root and you have 2 and 3. So 5, 6, 7, 2 and 3. So we utilize the first chord more melodically
because it works with the root in there and it has some nice color tones in there. The
second one I use a lot more and a lot of jazz musicians use it for copying because it has
all the nice color tones in between the scale and it gets rid of the void notes; the root
and the 4th. The root is usually played by the bass player and the 4th note is just a
void note from the key.